Word: bratsk
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...going for power, the other for poetry, Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, 42, and Poet Robert Frost, 88, shared a plane to Moscow to see what the Russians are up to in both fields. Udall was soon flying off to Siberian sites at Bratsk, Irkutsk and Kuibyshev, on the Volga River, to mosey around hydroelectric plants, high dams, and extra-high-voltage transmission lines; Frost, escorted by Russian Literary Editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 52, and Angry Young Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco (TIME cover, April 13, 1962), began searching for common mind-meeting ground. The search led him far afield...